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He was 15 and just about to take his GCSEs when he started PPLParty. com, a social networking site, from his bedroom in Coventry.

在考文垂自己的卧室里创办社交网站PPLParty.com时，布兰南只有15岁，正要考取英国普通中等教育证书（GCSE）。

In four years' time, BBC Online's content will cover most of the national curriculum, from the age of five through to GCSEs.

四年之后，英国广播公司网上内容将覆盖大部分国家开设的课程，从5岁到普通教育证书的考试。

Helen's immediate goal is to help Nikki her daughter get through her GCSEs.

海伦的近期目标是帮助女儿尼基通过普通中等教育证书的考试。

She has already achieved two A*s for GCSEs in French and Spanish, which she took aged nine, and is now learning Arabic and Russian.

她九岁的时候已经以A的成绩拿下法语和西班牙语的普通中等教育证书，目前在学阿拉伯语和俄语。

Take-up was highest among the parents of children preparing for GCSEs, he says.

他说，那些购买资料的人中，大多数是那些准备参加普通中等教育考试的孩子们的家长。

On Sunday, the shadow schools secretary Michael Gove announced Tory plans to overhaul league tables, A-levels and GCSEs.

周末，保守党教育大臣迈克尔·戈夫宣布了该党对成绩单、中学课程和中学毕业证书进行彻底改革的计划。

Last week, French dropped out of the top 10 most popular GCSEs for the first time.

上周，法国第一次被挤出了考英国普通中等教育证书最多的前10位国家。

Gerrard passes nine GCSEs, yet spends his last school exam pondering "exactly how I would burn my uniform" .

杰拉德通过了GCSE的9门课，然而参加最后一门考试课时，满脑子想的却是“该如何一把火烧掉自己的校服”。

The results of the GCSEs and A-levels taken by 16- and 18-year-olds are still rising.

16和18岁学生获取普通中等教育证书和高深级考试及格的成绩仍在上升。

Last summer 69% of pupils met the benchmark for good GCSEs, easily beating the national average.

去年夏天，69%的学生达到GCSE课程良好的标准，轻松超过全国平均水平。

August-born boys are 12 per cent less likely than September-born boys to get good GCSEs and girls are 9 per cent less likely.

八月出生的男生比九月出生的男生在获得优秀的GCSE课程成绩的概率上低了12%，而女生则低了9%。

"Even my granny is telling me to do more revision, " says another 15-year-old, Steve Burgess from West Yorkshire, who is sitting nine GCSEs.

西约克郡的斯狄弗·波格斯，15岁，正参加普通教育证书的九门考试，他说，“连我奶奶也在叫我多复习。”

In independent schools, 53. 7% of GCSEs sat were awarded an A or A*, compared with 55% in grammars and 17. 3% in comprehensives.

私立学校有53.7%的GCSE考生得到A或A+，文法学校55%，综合学校17.

How many schoolchildren are feeling wretched this week because they have fared worse than their friends in their GCSEs?

这周有多少学生会感到十分不幸由于他们在中等教育考试中处境要比朋友们糟糕许多？

Also last year, when GCSEs were over, I started to teach myself guitar.

同样是去年，当GCSE结束时，我开始自学吉他。